The Waipawa Mail. Published Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Tuesday, May 2, 1905. NOTES.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 4806, 2 May 1905, Page 2

The Waipawa Mail. Published Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Tuesday, May 2, 1905. NOTES.

In an article on “ Dried Milk,” in the April number of Dalgety’s Review, it is stated that arrangements are being made whereby dried milk factories will be erected in New South Wales, Victoria and New Zealand upon the principles of the factory now in operation at Bunnythorpe, in this country. So far as Sydney is concerned, the bulk of the supply is being taken up by biscuit manufacturers, pastry cooks, and similar trade concerns. The general milk-consuming public are as yet quite ignorant of the existence of such a product. As it becomes known, the probabilities are that the demand for it will equal, if not exceed, that of condensed and concentrated milk, and possibly, where the supply of fresh milk is doubtful as to quality, the dried milk will be preferred. It is further stated that one factory in each of the three States already mentioned is merely the forerunner of many wherever dairying is carried on to even a small extent.

The flag of the Salvation Army (said General Booth at Christchurch) was floating to-day in 49 different countries, and in those countries salvation was preached in 32 different languages. Salvationists were looked upon as ignorant people, but there were hundreds of officers who spoke two, three and four languages. In those countries the Army had 7500 different societies, which were led forward by 14,000 officers, assisted by 50,000 local officers. They had a literature of 65

different publications, with a circulation of over 50 million copies per annum ; they had 27 different War Cries in 17 different languages, and had 17,000 different bands. The Army had something like 650 different institutions all round the world. They fed .200,000 homeless men and women every week, and sheltered under their roofs 20,000 homeless men and women every night. They had 125 different rescue homes, from which 6000 women passed every year, 500 of which they contended were permanently rescued. There was also the Prison Mission, which had helped 2000 criminals last year to earn their livings in an honest manner. Then there were the maternity homes and the inquiry department by which they sought for lost people. The Army also had 19 farm colonies, and carried on a great emigration scheme. Since he had come into Christchu .‘oh he had received advice that a batch of 1000 colonists were leaving England for Canada on the 26th of the present month. He had started with the idea of making one great colony, but instead of that he thought he saw he would be doing more good for the human family if he simply transferred the people from those parts of the world where they were not wanted to those parts where they were. He would close his address by asking two questions: What were those present individually doing towards helping those who had fallen on the highway of life, and who could not get up again, and who would help the Salvation Army in New Zealand ?